Table of Contents
Diffusion Models
Overviews
Key Papers
Image and Video Generation
Diffusion Models in NLP
Related Pages
Diffusion Models
Overviews
Yang et al 2022 - Diffusion Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Methods and Applications
Tutorials
Nakkiran et al 2024 - Step-by-Step Diffusion: An Elementary Tutorial
McAllester 2023 - On the Mathematics of Diffusion Models
In NLP
Zhu & Zhao 2023 - Diffusion Models in NLP: A Survey
Zou et al 2023 - Survey of Diffusion Models in Natural Language Processing
Key Papers
Ho et al 2020 - Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
The one that started it all (for image generation)
Image and Video Generation
Saharia et al 2021 - Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Refinement
Stable Diffusion:
Rombach et al 2021 - High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
Blattmann et al 2023 - Stable Video Diffusion: Scaling Latent Video Diffusion Models to Large Datasets
Diffusion Models in NLP
Li et al 2022 - Diffusion-LM Improves Controllable Text Generation
Zheng et al 2023 - Reparameterized Discrete Diffusion Model for Text Generation
Ye et al 2024 - Diffusion of Thoughts: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models
LLaDA:
Nie et al 2025 - Large Language Diffusion Models
Arriola et al 2025 - Block Diffusion: Interpolating Between Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models
Li et al 2025 - Unifying Continuous and Discrete Text Diffusion with Non-simultaneous Diffusion Processes
Wu et al 2025 - Fast-dLLM: Training-free Acceleration of Diffusion LLM by Enabling KV Cache and Parallel Decoding
Nvidia paper
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Image Generation